MSNBC Anchors Go to War With Each Other Over Soda Taxes

Tuesday, July 28, 2009

BARACK OBAMA

On MSNBC, Kelly O'Donnell reports the White House is open to taxing soda and booze to pay for health care.

"I can make a firm pledge," he said in Dover, N.H., on Sept. 12. "Under my plan, no family making less than $250,000 a year will see any form of tax increase. Not your income tax, not your payroll tax, not your capital gains taxes, not any of your taxes."

Obama just poured grain alcohol on that promise and set it alight.

MSNBC anchor Tamron Hall refers to "food deserts" where soda is the only beverage, claiming that 600,000 live in the South Side of Chicago, where their only food-purchase option is from convenience stores.

These convenience stores sell no juice, no bottled water, no milk, no iced tea? Nothing but soda?

Now Donny Deutsch and his co-anchor Hall are shouting at and over each other; she claims he doesn't care about the poor, he suggests she's a pawn of McDonald's and junk-food companies. Poor Kelly O'Donnell shrugs uncomfortably.

07/28 03:17 PM Share